“Emmanuelle” actress Christine Boisson dies at the age of 68
She became famous as a teenager with the erotic film, but later Christine Boisson broke away from that image. Now she has died at the age of 68.
The French acting world is mourning the loss of one of its most famous personalities: Christine Boisson has died. The actress died on Monday at the age of 68 in a Paris nursing home from the effects of a lung disease. Her daughter Juliette Kowski told the “New York Times” that this was the case.
Christine Boisson became famous as a teenager when she played the role of Marie-Ange in the erotic film “Emmanuelle” in 1974.
The film was a huge success, both in France and internationally – and made the then 17-year-old a sex symbol. “She didn’t like that at all,” her daughter remembers looking back, emphasizing that her mother always tried to shed the image of an erotic actress.
After her early breakthrough, Christine Boisson attended a prestigious drama school in Paris and made a name for herself on the theater stage. She appeared in plays by Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams and Eugène Ionesco, among others.
After completing her three-year training, she refused to accept roles in which her appearance was the main focus. She proved her acting talent with her performance in films such as “The Taxi Driver” by Jacques Bral and Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Identification of a Woman”.
In 1984, she was awarded the Romy Schneider Prize for her outstanding performance in “Rue barbare” by Gilles Béhat – the first prize winner ever.
Her daughter describes this moment as particularly significant: “It was a big step in her career.”
In the course of her 40-year acting career, Boisson has appeared in over 50 films. Most recently, she appeared in front of the camera for the French television series “Profiling Paris” in 2014.
